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WXKS-FM has launched its newly rebranded morning show, "Billy and Lisa in the Morning". Long-time Kiss 108 personalities Billy Costa and Lisa Donovan will lead the revamped morning show along with co-hosts Justin Aguirre and Winnie Akoury.

Carlos Medina has joined the "Morning XTRA Show" on WFOM Atlanta. Medina is teaming up with Tug Cowart and Scott Rheinhold on the Dickey Broadcasting Company Conservative Talker.

On Friday Audacy CEO David Field reported that his company banked $419.4 million in revenue in Q2, up from $304.5 million in the second quarter of 2021. Radio revenue was flat for the quarter with digital up 19%. 

Audacy has received notification from the New York Stock Exchange that the company’s Class A common stock is not in compliance with the NYSE’s continued listing standard requiring a minimum average closing price of $1.00 per share over 30 consecutive trading days.  

The Ed Christian run company reported on Friday that net revenue increased 6.3% to $29.8 million for Q2, compared to $28.0 million for the same period last year. 

If you could invest less than 48 hours and boost your radio sales bottom line - would that be a worthwhile Return On Investment? Radio Ink and The Center for Sales Strategy suggest an investment in the Radio Masters Sales Summit.

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(By Mike McVay) Last weekend, because of a charity that I’m involved with, I was part of a group invited to attend WWE’s Summer Slam in Nashville at Nissan Stadium. To be honest, I have been to wrestling matches before, but not like this.

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John Brennana is a nearly 18-year veteran of CMG's stations in Tampa. Now, after 3 1/2 years as Director of Branding and Programming for two of the cluster's FM stations, he's being given Operations Director duties for the entire station group. Jenna Kesneck also gets a promotion.